It’s not looking too good for The Great American State Fair, an event due to take place this summer at the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Part of the events designed to mark the United States of America’s 250th birthday, the “Freedom 250” celebration revealed its line-up of artists this week.
The billing was... Well, as one online commentator put it, “the worst lineup of musical acts I have ever seen.”
It included Vanilla Ice, Martina McBride, The Commodores, C+C Music Factory, Young MC, Morris Day, Poison’s Bret Michaels, Flo Rida and Fab Morvan - the surviving member of the lip-syncing duo Milli Vanilli.
As we reported yesterday, it didn’t take long before several artists announced that they would not be performing. Morris Day, best known as the lead singer of The Time (a group associated with Prince), took to Instagram to dispel the rumour he’d be playing, while Young MC also dropped out, saying that the artists “were never told about any political involvement with the event”.
